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"Obituary of Mrs. M. M. Hassell," The Gospel Messenger vol. 19 no. 12 (Dec. 1897)

AUTHOR:

Hassell, Sylvester

In her twelfth year, mother experienced conviction for sin and a hope of salvation through the atoning death of the Lord Jesus Christ, and she was baptized into the fellowship of the Baptist Church, of which she was a member more than seventy years; and all the days of her long pilgrimage she proved the reality of her conversion, and adorned her Christian profession with a most godly walk and conversation… She surpassed all other human beings of my acquaintance in the gift of prayer.

My dear father always had family prayer morning and night; and once every week, he called on mother to lead, which she did in the most solemn, reverent, and thrilling manner I have ever heard—it was to me a heaven below to listen to her humble, tender, and fervent voice ascending to the throne of the Divine Majesty. And, after father’s death, I have often heard her in her lonely chamber, at the dead hours of night, pour forth her earnest supplications to God for His mercies to herself and others.

My own mother, who died when I was four years old, could not have treated me more lovingly and tenderly. She was always a ministering angel to me in affliction and bereavement. Her sympathy was active and profound; her counsel was heavenly. Her words often seemed to me as the words of God—they were in such harmony with the Scriptures and the teachings of the Divine Spirit.